The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1887-07-19
A MOMENTOUS RIDE.
How Mickey Finn and the Mule
Saved the Cow.


Tindsley's woods into putting on their
new spring suit. Brown robins tripped
briskly through the springing green
places in Stumpy Field. Mickey Firms
tame crow sat on the fence and kept a
watchful eye on a circling hawk, who
had felonious designs on Mrs. Doolan's
bantams. A venturesome frog came
cut of the mud on the margin of
Browns pond and tried to sing solo;
surprised at the dismal croak that came
from his throat. he concluded that he
was not fitted for singing, and went
back into the mud to wait until the
chorus began work in June.
Mickey Finn had grown rapidly DUR
ing the winter. He was broader
shouldered and deeper chested. and he
began to put away childish things. A
perception of the conventions of
society began to dawn on him. He be-
gan to ask himself whether there was
any virtue in paper collar. But then
there would be too manifest an incon-
gruity between a paper collar and a
red flannel shirt; and so he bridged the
difficulty with a dicky. But he soon
found that elegance was gained at the
expense of comfort, for the collar
ehoked him and the dicky kept slipping
around so that strip of red flannel
shirt was exposed toview. His mother.
while she began to know that her boy
was weaving away from her. failed to
see that the subtle alchemy of manhood
was beginning to stir his pulses, or that
perception of the dignities of life had
unconconsciously been appropriated by
him. The development of Drawn and
muscle had no significance to her.
Mickey would always be her boy, were
he an Ajax in size and a Hercules in
limb.
But Mr.. Finn took more practical
view of the evolution of little Mike.
s'Ye needn't be so swintilimental
about tn by. Biddy," said Mike, one
evening. "It's not that he's thinkin'
less iv We; but We wouldn't be wantin'
q big lump iv by like him t be
mauthering around like babby. I'll
lave it t yerser now-would We? All.
ha! but he's good fer amy o tn b'ys
iv his weight an inches. / seen him
givin' the fut t Pat Feenan's by
Jamesey this Chuseday's a week. an
drappin' him on tn broad iv his back
as sisy as you'd be turnin' pancake.
Shure he's good aither way We take
him-collar'n elbow. side holt, or
catch-as-catch-can."
Mr.. Finn chuckled to himself as he
rscapituiated his sons virtues, and his
wife looked out into the gathering twi-
light with g. breeding premonition that
these physical accomplishments of her
boy wouldgg him into trouble in the
days to come. ~ -
Mr.. Firms chuckles died away when
he saw man open the gate and walk
up the little gravelled path to the door.
He recognized the man as Jack Cooney,
to whom he owed thirty dollars on the
purchase of cow.
''Good avenin' t. We, Mike, an how
times wild ye?" said Jack.
"Well, thin, they might be better
nor they are. What wild tn rheumatic
and the late spring I'm discouraged in
toirely. How'S things wild yerser
Jack?" '-
"Fm in mighty tight place, Mike.
Troth, man, I'm nearly out iv me head
wild trubble. Yen mind the under
taker McNulty! Well, me sister
Mary's afther dyin' wild tn newmonya.
God rest her, and whin she was sick
fwhat did that dirty blaggard do but
he comes around p'aNful and quite as
lamb, tn sn'akin yillun. Jist whin
he was goin' out iv the dure he comes
back 3 me sister an says he: Mary
says he, I'll lave me card wild ye,
says he, SAN if yer wantin' any thing
{ in my line. We can send fur me. There's
neer man in my line o business as
kapes betther goods, says he, an wild
that he whit out. afther ravin' his
black card on tn bed, an it r'adin' ;:
.McNulty. cheapest undertaken in the
city" -.a54
'tFwhat did We do wild him, Jacks"
said Mike, leaning over the table to
catch the reply.
''Fwhat w'ud any man do as had two
fists on his arrums and two shoes on
his fate? l jist went over till him, an
I thumped him till his face was like a
b'afsteak, an gridironed his back wild
tn kickin' 1 gev him."
can he tux tn law on We, I sup
pose"
Faith he did that. He had me up
for 'sault an batthery. an tn ledge
fined me thirty dollars or 60 t Jail for
thirty days. But I got out on q molly
omethin' or other. an hav thirty